I just finished it. He makes some very interesting statements. Unfortunately I felt like a lot of his statements were "staged" to be "real" but in actuality just him making up stuff. I hope it was real and heartfelt, but it is a TV program...

1) This video really hammers down while it is so essential to enter into such rigorous asceticism only after years of training and with the help and blessing of a spiritual father. Fr. Peter had no spiritual father (and I'm not including Fr. Lazarus here) and thus his journey was so much more difficult. Thus, this is definitely not for anyone or everyone.

2) I wonder too if his thoughts were sincere since this was made for television.

3) I was kind of put of by his initial thoughts about how he is trying to seek meaning by "sampling" other spiritual traditions. This kind of mingling of different spiritualities is dangerous. you are anchorless, jumping from one bandwagon to the next to go with what works for you, instead of simply what works.

4) The gems of wisdom from Fr. Lazarus really hit home with me especially in his dicta regarding prayer.